Archive for August, 2011

Bennington Garlic Fest 9/3-9/4

Posted on 29 August 2011 (0)

Greetings!  Once again it’s garlic festival season again for us.  Our first is this upcoming weekend in beautiful Bennington, Vermont! Truth be told, this has not been our best year. This spring was very, very wet and unfortunately, we wound up losing some garlic (primarily Ukrainian Red) to oversaturated fields. Because of that, we’ll likely [...]

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Farming with Dynamite

Posted on 12 August 2011 (0)

If there’s one thing I love it’s a crazy idea. This was a crazy idea.  For the most part, I enjoy watching other people enact these things….from a distance. FARMING WITH DYNAMITE!

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Family/Work/Farm Balance

Posted on 03 August 2011 (0)

This year has been like a bee sting to the eye (see left). It’s not worth sugarcoating…it’s been a hard year of farming.  I’ve slowly come to realize this year that it may not be in our best interest to continue farming commercially.  I LOVE LOVE LOVE the challenges that farming presents, but it’s been [...]

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